Sapphire built a new R9 290 card which combines two of the manufacturer's cooling technologies in order to improve the temperature, noise and overclocking efficiency of the device. The Vapor Chamber technology is present the dissipate the heat from the...

AMD fans have been waiting on this for a long time, the eagerly awaited Sapphire custom version of AMD’s R9 290X, featuring their cutting edge Tri-X cooling system. Sapphire have not only adopted their impressive three fan cooler, but they have...

ASUS' pair of Matrix cards are, once again, extraordinary products. The video cards target overclockers of both the more and less extreme variants. Regarding the overclocking aspect, the Matrix GeForce GTX 780 Ti does not offer higher overclocks when...

The Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 is factory overclocked from the reference configuration of 947MHz to 1030MHz which will help it perform better than reference R9 290′s. However, the overclocking doesn't stop there, we were able to get an additional 10%...

AMD's reference Radeon R9 290 and 290X cooler earned our disdain once we figured out that it was causing the otherwise-impressive Hawaii GPU to operate at performance levels below the company's specification. Getting the graphics processor to operate at...

When it launched, there were some high expectations for the R9 290 and its custom designed ilk. The reference cards performed well but were ultimately held back by lackluster cooling solutions. While we havent looked at many examples thus far,...

Considering the last few cards I have taken a look at have been R9 270X's I was especially excited for the R9 290 Tri-X to come in. On top of finally getting a chance to see the performance of one of AMDs newest cards, I was very happy with the last...

When the AMD R9 290X hit the market everyone was impressed with the fantastic value for money offered – performance that could challenge and often easily beat the GTX 780 for a fraction of the price at the time of release. Nvidia of course responded with...

We've already written a small tome on the reference 290 so we won't completely rehash that here, but in summary, while AMD had a major hit on their hands with the 290 with respect to pricing and performance this came at the cost of noise. The cooling...

We've waited what feels like an eternity for custom-cooled Radeon R9 290-series graphics cards, but now that they're here, we feel it's safe to say they've been worth the wait. One of the first cards out of the block is Sapphire's R9 290 Tri-X, a...

In November AMD released their reference R9 290 and while we were impressed with the frame rate performance we certainly didn’t find it fun dealing with the noisy, ill performing reference cooler. It has been some time coming, but today we look at...